1 Corinthians 7:9
But if they can not be continent, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
In Context
8But I say to the unmarried and to the widows: It would be good for them, if they remain as I myself.
10But to the married I give commandment, not I, but the Lord: Let not the wife leave her husband:
Cross References
1 Corinthians 7:28But if you should marry, you would not sin. And if a virgin should marry, she would not sin. But such will have affliction in the flesh. But I spare you.
1 Corinthians 7:39The wife is bound as long as her husband lives; but if her husband die, she is free to be married to whom she will, only in the Lord.
1 Timothy 5:14I will, therefore, that the younger widows marry, bear children, manage the house, and thus give no occasion to the adversaries to speak reproachfully.
Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 7:2-10
Against Fornication. ( a. d. 57.) 1 Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. 2 Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband. 3 Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband. 4 The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife. 5 Defraud ye not one the other, except… Read the whole commentary →